Improved washing-machine



tetra @latent @twine Laim Patent No. 1o2,714, dad May 3, 1870.

. IMPROVED WASHING-MACHINE.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent making part of the same.

`13e it known that I, W. T. C. RUNNELLS, of Searsport, in the county ot' Waldo and State of Maine, have invented a new'and useful Machine forWashing Clothes; and I hereby declare that the following is afull, clear, and exact description of the const-ruction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings making a part of this specification, in which-' Figure 1 is a perspective view. 1 Lettera, a tub.

b b2, corrugated rollers. c o, guards. d d, frame or slotted side pieces, in and to which tire rollers b1 b2' are affixed by pivots in the ends.

e ev e e, thin, dat strings attached to'lower roller. f, crank passing through lower roller and side pieces and side of tub. f

Within a tub, made like tub a, or in any convenient form, I put the frame d d, iu which are the rollers, one upon the other. The lower roller, b1, I `make cylindrical and open through .its corrugated surface, with a guard, c, upon each. eud,to prevent the'pnlothcs slipping over the ends. I make thev lower roller one foot or more in diameter.

The upper roller, b2, I make of heavy wood, or its equivalent, and self-adjusting, by reason of its own weight, and slotted side pieces, `Ad d, in which it plays.

It should weigh twenty-five pounds or-rno're, accord- 'ing to its length, and play between the'guards c c. i

roller, and thoroughly washes the clothes.. lo re move them from the roller when washed, turn the crank the other way.

lVhat I claim, as 4my improvement in awashiug-machine, isy Attaching to the open or oagefroller flat tapes, by which, by the 'revolution of the rollers, the articles to .be washed are held to the open roller,which is furnished' with guards c c, as shown and described,-in

combination with tub a, with its corrugated end and;

slotted'end pieces ll d, adjusting-roller b2, and crank f, arranged as described, for the purpose as setforth. Dated at Searsport, Maine, December' 17, 1869;v W. T. C. RUNNELLS. Witnesses:

CHAs..-F. GORDON, AARON P. KINNEY. 

